contrabando
Galician
Etymology
From contra- + bando.
Noun
contrabando m (plural contrabandos)
- contraband, smuggled goods (goods)
- smuggling (activity)
Related terms
- contrabandear
- contrabandista
Portuguese
Etymology
From Italian contrabbando.
Noun
contrabando m (plural contrabandos)
- contraband (goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods)
- (uncountable) the practice of smuggling
Derived terms
- contrabandear
- contrabandista
Further reading
- “contrabando” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Etymology
From contrabanda, borrowed from Italian contrabando, from contra- + bando.
Noun
contrabando m (plural contrabandos)
- contraband, smuggled goods (goods)
- smuggling (activity)
- bootleg, bootlegging
Derived terms
- contrabandear
- contrabandista
- contrabando hormiga
Further reading
- “contrabando”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014